The phrase "a note of gloom" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or atmosphere that is somber or melancholic.
Example: "The report concluded with a note of gloom, highlighting the challenges that lay ahead for the community."
Alternatives: "a hint of sadness" or "an air of melancholy."
There was a note of gloom, too, at Wesleyan University, where the screenwriter Joss Whedon told grads: "You are all going to die".
There was a note of gloom, however, in the ending, as Brody returned to his family, and she returned to her apartment, alone, quickly sinking a second glass of wine.
I was struck by the naked pessimism of his speech to the Barbican audience, which seemed to strike a note of Beckettian gloom: "Life as such is a poor life that is getting more splintered and negative," he reflected.
Then there are the visitors, with their passing impressions: Carlyle, Hardy, Gissing and – least passingly – Swinburne, whose long poem, By the North Sea, strikes a note of Sebaldian gloom: "A land that is lonelier than ruin,/ A sea that is stranger than death".
Note of Gloom: Not only have Manhattan kids been deprived of the hurdy-gurdy, since it offended the delicate ear of Mayor LaGuardia, but now they've… The father of a seven-year-old son was trying to sleep late one morning.
Note of Gloom: Not only have Manhattan kids been deprived of the hurdy-gurdy, since it offended the delicate ear of Mayor LaGuardia, but now they've lost even the throaty oom-ph-ph which accompanies all normal merry-go-rounds.
By Hazel Lardner and Clifford Orr The New Yorker, October 14, 1944 P. 15 Note of Gloom: Not only have Manhattan kids been deprived of the hurdy-gurdy, since it offended the delicate ear of Mayor LaGuardia, but now they've lost even the throaty oom-ph-ph which accompanies all normal merry-go-rounds.
May I inject a note of hope into Polly Toynbee's untrammeled gloom?
It's not all doom and gloom, they are quick to point out, and there is a note of optimism at the end of the show.
Speeches that had been loaded with humor in past years sounded notes of gloom.
A year ago the restaurant closed for good, and a pall of gloom fell on the neighbourhood.
